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Languages Represented:
English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.

Detailed biographical information about Mr. Phleger may be found in the transcript of his Regional Oral History Office interview,
"Sixty Years in Law, Public Service and International Affairs" (cataloged separately as BANC MSS 80/67 c).

Scope and Content

Herman Phleger, San Francisco attorney, began his law practice in the city in 1914, after graduation from the University of
California, Berkeley, as a member of the illustrious class of 1912, and studying law at Boalt Hall and at Harvard Law School.
As a specialist in international law, he served as counsel to many prominent business concerns in California and the west,
and was appointed to several important government posts. In 1945 he served as associate director of the Legal Division of
the U.S. Military Government for Germany, and, 1953-1957, as legal adviser, Department of State. He was also the U.S. representative
to the 13th General Assembly of the United Nations, 1958; U.S. member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the Hague
Treaty, 1957-1963, and again, 1969-1975; and chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Antarctica Conference, 1959, that drafted
the Antarctic Treaty. In his capacity as legal adviser to the Department of State, he attended many of the important international
conferences, including the summit meeting at Geneva in 1955 and the discussions on the Suez Canal crisis in 1956.

Mr. Phleger gave this collection of papers to The Bancroft Library in 1977 during the course of the interviewing sessions.
Housed in two boxes and four cartons, they include correspondence highlighting his government service; two diaries, covering
his World War I service, 1918, and the period he was in Germany with the U.S. Military Government, 1945; speeches; clippings;
a transcript of his interview for the John Foster Dulles Oral History Project; and subject files relating to international
conferences (Antarctica, Suez Canal crisis, etc.), military occupation of Germany, the Nuremberg trial, the United Nations,
arms control, U.C. Berkeley class of 1912, the San Francisco waterfront strikes, 1934 and 1936, etc.